x, 177 pages : 20 cm

"Written during the eighth century's T'ang Dynasty, Lu Yü's Ch'a Ching, or The Classic of Tea, has, for over one thousand years, provided tea drinkers with practical and spiritual knowledge of the art of tea-brewing, and is the text primarily responsible for elevating the drinking of tea to its unique place of veneration in Chinese life."--Publisher description

This ed. previously published: [Boston] : Little, Brown, and Company, 1974

Includes bibliographical references

Tea : a mirror of China's soul -- Tea until Lu Yü's time : the evidence of language -- Tea from the T'ang to the Ming : its botany, culture and manufacture -- The West comes to tea -- The life and times of Lu Yü -- The beginnings of tea -- The tools of tea -- The manufacture of tea -- The équipage -- The brewing of tea -- Drinking the tea -- Notations on tea -- Tea-producing areas -- Generalities -- Plan of the book

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